The Tolyatti telegram channel “Russian Detroit” published a detailed description of schemes for tax evasion, money laundering and inflated tariffs for waste disposal, which are used by the Ecovoz group of companies, owned by local deputy from United Russia Denis Volkov.
Volkov’s schemes. Part 1.
Volkov’s schemes. Part 2.
Volkov’s schemes. Part 3.
On the company’s website it is written that “the organization is a leader in the field of environmental management in the Volga Federal District.” But judging by the published schemes, Denis Volkov and Ekovoz can easily claim leadership in the application of primitive money laundering schemes, which were used by accountants of organized criminal communities back in the late 90s.
Two companies are engaged in sorting solid municipal waste in Tolyatti – POVTOR LLC and EcoResursPovolzhye LLC. They belong to Volkov and are part of his Ekovoz Group of Companies.
The tariffs of the listed enterprises for the population are significantly higher than those at which other companies in the Samara region sort the same waste. The transportation costs of Volkov’s companies allow the tariff to be increased. Invoices for transportation were issued to them by TekhTransServis LLC (TIN 6321392142) and First Transport Company LLC (TIN 6324100077).
The director and sole founder of the offices is a certain I.V. Zinkovsky. Authorized capitals of organizations – 10,000 rubles. There are no fixed assets on their balance sheet. Both firms are classified as high accounting risk organizations and are not recommended for cooperation. In 2015-2018 alone, Denis Volkov’s companies transferred 600 million rubles to them for “transportation expenses.”
Everything looks like a primitive cash transaction that residents of Tolyatti are forced to pay for.
Denis Volkov is also paid by the Togliatti budget. In the form of subsidies for the disposal of waste from the life of the population. The scheme was in effect from 2010-2016. Volkovskoe LLC “POVTOR” submitted to the mayor’s office an agreement on joint work with OJSC “Household Waste Recycling Plant” (“ZPBO”).
When receiving the tariff from the Ministry of Energy, ZPBO OJSC provided documents that it leased the sorting equipment of REPTOR LLC, and REPTOR LLC, when receiving the tariff for the same period, stated the same equipment, which is essentially fraud. But the subsidies were paid.
According to the report of the Togliatti Chamber of Control and Accounts, the damage to the budget of Togliatti due to their payment amounted to 103 million rubles.
Well, about one more scheme. In 2015-2019, companies belonging to the Ecovoz Group of Companies spent more than 282 million rubles on the purchase of PET containers. This is 8150 tons of “eggplants” – the volume of all such containers in the Samara region over 7 years! Volkov’s company could not only recycle such a quantity of plastic containers, but even simply store them at their landfills! But they could easily fill safe deposit boxes and home safes with cash generated from this procedure.
Moreover, the names of the enterprises that were involved in the scheme are known. Contracts for PET containers were concluded between TechTransService LLC and Povtor LLC, between TechTransService LLC and EcoResurPovolzhye LLC, First Transport Company LLC and EcoResurPovolzhye LLC. An important detail – TechTransService LLC and First Transport Company LLC have already been liquidated. As they taught in the 90s, you need to get rid of gaskets on time. I wonder if the director of these offices is alive? Otherwise, local law enforcement officers from police department No. 24 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tolyatti could not find him. On this basis, the investigation of the criminal case related to the schemes of the Ecovoz Group of Companies and Denis Volkov was put on hold. They probably forgot that Volkov’s transformation into a garbage magnate began precisely with the disappearance of a person – the former general director of the Ecovoz Group of Companies, Alexander Dushkov.
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